Not sure if its a good idea or not but I just had an idea of a uber rare scoop that only has 1 use. Whatever u scoop with the... scoop gains a [miniturized] * mod. So say u have a CR, u drop the CR and rescoop and now its a CR* miniturized. But like I said it'd be an uber rare drop.

In other words an epic idea? Na then make it a holiday item or something, like "Haunted Scoop" Desc: "So scary the very item you scoop will shrink in fear" And make it so only like 5-10 of em drop in the entire event.

It would only take 1 of them to make every. single. item. ever. mini modded.

Well he did say single-use, but it's still dumb as hell. Sorry

On the bright side, Jeff has said that he's looking into actually decent ways to mod items.

I really hope he doesn't charge cash for it.

I'm hoping there's a salvage mechanic tomake use of low tech modded gear.

I'd rather see a fairly cheap and easy-to-obtain item (maybe 1b per?) that has a 50% chance of applying a random mod to an item, 50% chance of destroying the item. That way, it won't just be MOD ALL THE THINGS, it will actually be a risk and there will be many times when it's a bad idea to attempt.

This is a terrible idea. If you want it to be costly, why not just make it... cost a lot? High risk mechanics like this are counterproductive and cause lots of unnecessary rage. It's like you're suggesting a new fancy uber that spawns an adum's blocker at 1% health, but only half the time. Sure, the average return might be decent but half the time you will be ragequitting. Now think how much better it would be if the boss was (at least almost) always doable by a full, experienced squad, even if the average difficulty is higher than the other case. Players respond well when they are given the tools to manage their own fortunes.

No one is seriously suggesting the MOD ALL THE THINGS scenario. What I had in mind is as follows.

Salvage modding materials from gear (graded roughly by tech level of the source gear). If you want to make your T21 energy *overclocked, you have to collect a fair number of T21 *overclocked items (five or so?). It would be nice to have a use for all the low tech modded gear we collect, but I'm not sure how to work those in. Perhaps you'd also need salvage a bunch of lower tech *overclocked gear as well. Throw in some other resource sinks and call it good.

It's worth considering whether modding an item should make it NB. I kind of like the idea of manufacturing modded gear to sell, but maybe there's no place for that in the market.

But by doing it so the only limitation is how much money you can spend, you'll have trillionaires like Jey using nothing but 10-modded items. There needs to be some risk mechanic, or the people with absurd amounts of money to burn will gain a massive advantage.

Simple, don't let it work on items that are already modded, or else have the new mod replace the old one. Or if you insist, let it replace 1 mod of your choice on a multi-modded item. Any of these would solve that problem.

lawl the "it costs a lot so its ok" excuse, "hai i sit around and do nuthing all day and let my coloniez make me luts of moneyz so i can be uberz at star sonataz while suckers actually do the game content to try and gain stuff lulz what loozerz" derp...

If it is so obvious to win that way, then do it?

I farm colonies along with doing game content and am still quite far behind.

I don't farm colonies and only do some ubers and I'm fine

I don't do anything and i'm still fine.

I really like yug's suggestion, though. Essentially it's the same as a cost per item, but it also becomes increasingly unlikely for you to be able to get items with more mods, retaining balance.